Betta

[ryno]

whats the difference between splenden and non splenden?

 

[crazyforcordoras]

Non splenden can mean a bunch of dofferent bettas. The diffference, is that betta splendens was bred for amazing finnage, others not. Betta Coccina, for example, is a beautiful betta, often called the Wine Red Betta. It is still pretty, but dosent have the elaborate fins of Splendens. The differnceis just thT. Splendens are bred for amazing fins, while others are not very common in thentade.

 

[ryno]

Oh, ok. thanks for the info. also, my feince wants to breed betta's for color and fin. are there any particular things that will help us with doin this? any suggestions on what to do or what not to do?

 

[crazyforcordoras]

Not sure, ive never bred bettas. I hear its tough to get certain fin types.

 

[Paradise3]

If you want to breed, research to the ends of the world before you do... It's hard, time consuming work.

I can say that Veiltail is dominant so if you bred a male veiltail to a female halfmoon you'd get over 50% veiltails which not a lot of people will buy. Red is dominant, blue is second dominant.

If either parent has a tiny, tiny amount of red on you'll get about 25-50% red young from them. Betta's can have hundreds of babies and all the males will need separating when they reach maturity, be warned.

Your best option is just to research to the ends of the earth, till your fingers bleed(Not literally).

 

[OldMan47]

It is really easy ryno. There are lots of species of fish within the Betta genus. The most common one at any fish shop is Betta splendens but the other 20+ species are also kept by specialists. Some of the more common other species are Betta imbellis, Betta simplex, Betta pugnax and Betta smaragdina. I have kept both B pugnax and B simplex but my well stocked LFS carries B imbellis as well as a huge selection of very nice B splendens in forms from crown tails to veil tails.